Monday, July 20, 2020

When It's Over

My spiritual father, the late, great Fr. Gommar DePauw, was the youngest of eight children born in Stekene, Belgium. His father, Mr. Desiree DePauw, was an educator and attorney, and his mother, Anna DePauw (nee Van Overloop), was a most pious Catholic homemaker. There were five girls and three boys. His eldest sister (and oldest of the eight) spent the last fifty (50) years of her life as a medical missionary nun in that part of the world formerly called the Belgian Congo and she made many converts. His older brother, Nestor, became a Franciscan priest with the religious name "Father Adhemar." Like his brother, he rejected Vatican II and maintained the Integral Catholic Faith, offering only the Traditional Mass and valid, traditional sacraments. The DePauw family was Catholic to the core and was blessed by three vocations; one of them destined to be God's instrument to preserve His Church in the Great Apostasy. 

It was just after World War II, Belgium had been liberated from Nazi tyranny, and one of  Father DePauw's older sisters was having a big celebration on the occasion of her 15th wedding anniversary. As his other siblings were all busy, and his father would be coming straight from work, Father agreed to pick up his mother at the house with the parish car and take her to the party. Upon his arrival, Father used his key to enter and announced himself. His mother called from her upstairs bedroom. She said she was all dressed up for the party, but needed help picking out her shoes. She beckoned her son to come upstairs and help her decide. She gave him a big kiss and showed him the two pairs of shoes, asking which ones he thought would make her look nicer. Father pointed to the ones he thought were better, and his mom smiled. She sat on the edge of the bed and was reaching down to put them on.

Suddenly, she sat upright and looked straight into her son's eyes. She firmly yet calmly said, "I think it's all over." She immediately laid back on the bed, took her last breath, and expired. Father called the ambulance and gave his mother the Last Rites. He went in the ambulance with her. She was pronounced dead on arrival by the attending physician in the hospital. Mrs. DePauw had been in excellent health, wasn't taking any medication, and took care of herself. "Natural causes" was listed on the death certificate. That we will all die one day is a fact. When, where, and how we die are known but to God. Every All Souls Day, Father would call to mind all the members of the Chapel who were with us the past November 2nd, but never made it to the next.

In Hebrews 2:14-15, we read, "Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death."(Emphasis mine). The One True Church has always taught us to reflect on the "Four Last Things:" Death Judgement, Heaven and Hell. This isn't to be morbid, but to recognize the fact that since the Fall, humanity is propelled (for better or worse) by the fear of death. Those who have the Faith will be inspired to do great things for Christ, live a holy life, die a good death, and attain eternal happiness in Heaven. Those who have the false faith of Mohammed will murder to obtain forty virgins from "Allah." Pagan Buddhists will try to "become one" with the universe.

Today, we have those who deny God and wish to cheat death. Their ideas impact our society. Truly, there have always been those who think they can somehow "transcend death." They try to figuratively "stay alive" by leaving some kind of legacy whether that is by becoming famous, doing something to try and change the world, etc. These things can be good or bad, depending on what they do, however even if done for something worthwhile, it does nothing to make them immortal because the universe itself will eventually end by entropy. There are now those who believe that they can literally live forever.

The modern day heathens, having no faith in God, want to live forever here since they reject the soul and life after death. This post will expose the folly of those who try to achieve secular salvation via medical science, transhumanism, and cryonics.

A Healthy Diet For Eternity?
 Theologian Jone reminds us of the duty which the Fifth Commandment imposes upon us: "Since death can result from the neglect of adequate care of one's health, the preservation of life and health is also a duty." (See Moral Theology, [1961], pg. 133). We can (and should) try to live as long and healthy as possible. This includes a good diet, exercise, getting regular medical check-ups, don't smoke, don't drink to excess, etc. I do all that. However, there are those that think that if we can just live long enough, medical science will cure all our ailments and we need only worry about dying in an accident. 

Besides the myriad (and contradictory) fad diets, exercise regimens and the like, there are strange things people will do in the hope of "living long enough." One recent development is parabiosis, where the blood of 16 to 25 year olds is transfused into older people. Regarding this "treatment" molecular biologist Michael Conboy at the University of California, Berkeley, said, "It just reeks of snake oil." (See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/young-blood-transfusions-are-on-the-menu-at-society-gala/). Nevertheless, if there's even a one in a million chance of living an extra year or two, people will try it, no matter how risky or how crazy it might be.

The odds of the medical establishment beating cancer (and every other disease) are slim to none. COVID-19 sent the world into a tailspin and it's not even that severe of a virus. Geneticists believe the ability of the human body to continue living reaches it's peak at around 120-125 years old. How does this square with Biblical accounts of people living hundreds of years? There are many factors that limit a human lifespan. Here are but ten of such major factors:

1. Murder
2. War
3. Accidents
4. Diseases
5. Stress
6. Obesity
7. Inadequate exercise
8. Environmental Stress
9. Exposure to Radiation
10. Telomerase Activity (chromosome shortening)


Early humans did not eat the processed foods of today, or lack exercise. Obesity was most likely extremely rare. There were far less pollutants and chemicals in use. This would cross off numbers six and seven above, and greatly reduce number four. However, there seem to be two factors in particular that could account for life spans dropping from about 900 to about 85 with an upward limit of approximately 125: (a) exposure to radiation, from space and within the Earth, and (b) telomerase activity.

Radiation

Coal burning, building materials, paved roads, and even granite countertops in kitchens, guarantee our exposure to igneous rocks. There is decay of radioisotopes in those igneous rocks (uranium, radium, and thorium, for example) that causes small amounts of radiation. Multiply the amount of constant exposure to that of ancient peoples and there is a huge amount of radiation as compared to way back in history. Cosmic radiation (not all of which is damaging) was thought to be constant throughout Earth's history. In 1995, Russian astronomer Dr. Anatoliy Erlykin, challenged this idea when he noted an anomaly in the very high-energy region  of the cosmic ray spectrum. (See A.D. Erlykin, "Around and Above the Knee"Nuclear Physics B--Proceedings Supplements 39 [February 1995]: 215-227).

In 1997, Sir Arnold Wolfendale, a British astronomer, joined with Erlykin and were able to show a significant increase in harmful cosmic rays showering the entire Earth arising from a single supernova in the recent past (i.e. sometime less than 100,000 years ago). (See Erlykin and Wolfendale, "A Single Source of Comic Rays in the Range 1015-1016 eV," Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 23 [August 1997]: 979).

Telomerase Activity

Our cells can only replicate a limited number of times. For the somatic cells that make up our organs, the telomere region of the chromosomes is incompletely replicated during cell division. Eventually, the chromosomes become so short that important genes fail to get replicated leading to the inability to replace damaged cells, resulting in organ shut-down and death. There is an enzyme, telomerase, which adds nucleotide base pairs to the ends of DNA to counteract the shortening process. There is one huge drawback: If cancer should occur, the tumors would grow unchecked and virtually unstoppable no matter what kind of cancer. Too much telomerase activity will bring about an early death from cancers and tumors; too little results in earlier death from organ failure. (See, e.g., E. Blackburn, "Telomere States and Cell Fates," Nature 408 [November 2, 2000]: 53-56).

The shift from immortality to mortality after the Fall might have necessitated longer life spans at first. Shorter lives would also have a limiting effect on the evils the majority of people in their fallen state could bring upon the world, and get people thinking about the things of God sooner, having less time on Earth.

Yet, suppose scientists could cure cancer. That would only increase life spans about two to three years. (See Keyfitz, "What Difference Would it Make if Cancer were Eradicated,"Demography 14 no. 4 [1977]. The study remains relevant as it was subsequently confirmed by others such as Stephen Cave). 

It does nothing to help the cause of so-called "health and fitness gurus," claiming they have the answers to living extremely long lives, when you see that their own lives were not long for many of them. Here's just a partial list:

  • Lucille Roberts, female health club empire-owner and fitness fanatic; died in 2003 at age 59 from cancer
  • Euell Gibbons, nutrition book author and natural foods advocate; died in 1975 at age 64 from an aneurysm
  • Jim Fixx, long-distance runner/advocate of running for health and long life; died in 1984 at age 52 from a heart attack after running
  • Nathan Pritikin, author and founder of the low cholesterol Pritikan diet committed suicide by slashing his wrists in the hospital at age 69 in 1984. He was dying from leukemia.
  • Robert E. Kowalski, author of many nutrition books, including The NEW 8-Week Cholesterol Cure which spent 115 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, died at age 65 in 2007 from a pulmonary embolism 

Bottom line: Medical science will not make us immortal. God determines how many years we have on this Earth. I'm sure we all know someone who defies all medical logic. For example, I knew a woman who lived near me as a child who smoked five packs of cigarettes a day, ate greasy food, was obese, never went to the doctor, and never exercised. She died at age 82 from falling down the stairs and hitting her head on concrete. She never had cancer, heart problems, etc. On the other hand, I lost a good friend of mine who did everything right and was extremely athletic. He died suddenly from a heart attack at age 47, leaving behind a wife and two kids. This doesn't mean we shouldn't do all we can to obey the Fifth Commandment, it simply means that it is God, not humans, Who determines life spans. "Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou canst not be my steward any longer." (St. Luke 16:16).

Humanity 2.0
There is a movement known as "transhumanism." Proponents believe that it is possible not merely to replace organs with better mechanical organs and parts (for those of us whose memories go back to the 1970s, think of the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man--now 27.8 million when adjusted for inflation--who had bionic parts). They actually think it is possible to "upload your mind" into another body, a machine, or even a computer program. Those who advocate for transhumanism are atheists by necessity because they assume that the mind and the brain are identical; you are your brain. They are materialists who deny the existence of the soul which works through the brain but is a separate substance that survives physical death. 

Ian Pearson, head of a futurology unit said:

If you draw the timelines, realistically by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine, so when you die it's not a major career problem,' Pearson told The Observer. 'If you're rich enough then by 2050 it's feasible. If you're poor you'll probably have to wait until 2075 or 2080 when it's routine. We are very serious about it. That's how fast this technology is moving: 45 years is a h*** of a long time in IT. (See https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/22/theobserver.technology;Emphasis and censoring of word mine). 

In this way you could live for centuries in a robotic body, or ostensibly forever in a computer program that never ends. There are several insurmountable problems with this idea.

1. Science can't explain consciousness. How is it that matter can be aware of itself? On the atheistic/materialistic worldview, people are simply atoms and molecules no different from anything else. How does evolution produce self-awareness? This question has no answer from materialists, anymore than they can explain how the first living cells appeared from non-living matter. Even atheist philosopher of mind, Dr. David Chalmers admits, "It is true that we have no idea how a non-biological system, such as a silicon computer system, could be conscious. But the fact is that we also have no idea how a biological system, such as a neural system, could be conscious. The gap is just as wide in both cases." (See Chalmers, in Science Fiction and Philosophy from Time Travel to Superintelligence, [2016])

2. A Computerized You wouldn't be You. Suppose you had an identical twin with identical molecules. Also suppose that you had identical experiences. Your twin would be "qualitatively identical" to you, but not "numerically identical." If you get killed, you die and the twin that survives is not "you." Likewise, if your twin dies, you continue to live, and do not cease to be you. Simply by duplicating your neurons and transferring them to a machine, does not magically make it "you." Consciousness only makes sense if God and souls exist, which is a defeater for "uploading minds."

3. Science can't even duplicate a roundworm's neurons. McGill University neuro-scientist Michael Hendricks writes in MIT Technology Review:

I study a small roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, which is by far the best-described animal in all of biology. We know all of its genes and all of its cells (a little over 1,000). We know the identity and complete synaptic connectivity of its 302 neurons, and we have known it for 30 years. If we could "upload" or roughly simulate any brain, it should be that of C. elegans. Yet even with the full connectome in hand, a static model of this network of connections lacks most of the information necessary to simulate the mind of the worm. In short, brain activity cannot be inferred from synaptic neuroanatomy. 
(See https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/15/109906/the-false-science-of-cryonics/)

Hence, transhumanism cannot work because:

  • science bases the concept of mind on the atheistic/metaphysical assumption that matter is all that exists
  • science has no idea how consciousness works
  • a mechanical "you" isn't really you at all
  • science cannot even replicate the brain function of a simple worm


Cold Comfort
Baseball great Ted Williams (1918-2002) is cryonically frozen with his head and body in two different tanks of liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is very cold, -320 degrees F (-196 degrees C). Absolute zero, the temperature at which molecules cease moving is -459.67 degrees F (-273.15 C). His body and head are kept at Alcor Cryonics labs. According to their website:

Cryonics is an experimental procedure that preserves a human being using the best available technology for the purpose of saving his/her life. We believe medical technology will advance further in coming decades than it has in the past several centuries, enabling it to heal damage at the cellular and molecular levels and to restore full physical and mental health. (See https://alcor.org; Emphasis mine).

Immediately after death, the person's body will be frozen in liquid nitrogen to prevent decay. When medical science cures what killed him, he will allegedly be defrosted and "revived."  Once more, problems that cannot be overcome arise:

1. Cryonics is based on the materialistic worldview. When the soul leaves the body, it cannot be "revived"--only resurrected by the power of God. 

2. Subjects must be frozen almost immediately. Alcor admits on its own website (cited above) that a person should "preferably" be frozen within 15 minutes after death, because longer wait time will make it more difficult to "restore" the person. Unless you die at Alcor, good luck getting frozen in 15 minutes or less.

3. Will anyone want to defrost the person? If, ad arguendo, science was able to cure most diseases, there would be a great surge in the world's population. Those who approve of cryonics are the same people who see humanity as a "plague" on "Mother Earth." Even Bergoglio exalts environmentalism and hardly ever mentions abortion. Who needs another rich person, revived, and wasting natural resources?

4. Freezer burn. According to Dr. Mehmet Toner, cryo-biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, "You can only slowly freeze and slowly warm large things. Ice is going to form inevitably during warming. The chances that you will bring a frozen head back is the same as when you go home tonight, open the freezer, get the ground beef out, and make a cow out of it." (See https://www.glitch.news/2017-01-27-the-arizona-desert-holds-145-frozen-humans-waiting-to-be-resurrected.html).  Not even a worm has been successfully frozen and restored to life. 

Cryonics is another failed "immortality project" that cannot deliver what it promises. 

Conclusion

"In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin." (Ecclesiasticus 7:40). I don't write this post to be depressing but to give real hope through our Faith. I realize that this might be my last post--- God may call me to Judgement before next Monday. Having death before your eyes will help clarify things. Whenever I'm especially upset, I'll ask myself, "If I only had two weeks to live, how important would this issue be to me?"The answer to most issues is "not very important," and I drop it. To those issues that I think would be important, I double my resolve to address it. 

How sad for the godless atheists to seek "immortality" by methods that are doomed to failure. Don't they realize that the entire universe will meet its death by entropy, making transhumanism, medicinal science, and cryonics moot even if such were possible? I don't know how I'll face my death when that time comes. I hope to be brave as one can be and in the state of grace, which is why I pray for the great grace of Final Perseverance every day. 

None of us will overcome the fear of death, or respond to it correctly, without the One True Faith. Instead of denying death, or trying not to think about it, the real solution to minimize the fear of death is to face the reality of it while striving to achieve true immortality in Heaven through Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church. Living and dying as a True Catholic is the only way to a happy immortality when this Earthly life is over. 




60 comments:

  1. We have to pray every day because we do not know when it will be our last hour. "I am coming soon," said the Lord in Revelation. It could be today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, in five, ten, twenty, thirty years. We do not know. You have to be ready because: "The Son of Man comes at an hour which you do not expect." (Mt 24, 44)

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    1. I have not always prayed the Rosary regularly. I learned how to say it on the web and after a while I got bored and gave up. I think that it was at this moment that I fell into bad inclinations and vices of impurity but since I started again to the practice of the daily Rosary, I did not fall again. Of course, I will continue in this direction.

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    2. Simon,
      Keep up the Rosary! You can’t pray the Rosary and remain attached to sin!

      —-Introibo

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    3. Exactly, and I will not hesitate to recommend it.

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  2. I love anytime you tell us more about Father’s life, I hope one day you could write his biography! Thank you!

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    1. @anon3:53
      If I were given full access to his documents, recordings, etc. by the Catholic Traditionalist Movement, I would love to write Fr DePauw’s biography!

      God Bless,

      ——Introibo

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  3. Are there still Masses said at Fr. Gommar DePauw's Chapel? If not are there any other Masses in NY City/Brooklyn every week? Baptisms offered?
    Thank you!

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    1. @anon7:02
      Yes, Fr. John Evangelista offers Mass at Ava Maria Chapel, but still only live online due to COVID. The SSPV has a Church in Oyster Bay Cove, and s Chapel in Melville. They are both fully functioning again. Check the SSPV website for times and directions. Unfortunately, there are no true Masses in NYC, you must go to Long Island.

      God Bless,

      ——Introibo

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  4. Shortly after graduating from law school in the late 1980s, one of my law school classmates at the Justice Dept. told me that she had worked on a case involving major fraud committed by cryogenics companies who would get money from rich old people with a promise of defrosting them in the future. Apparently, this has not stopped. How gullible people are!

    Thank you for your posts. It’s refreshing to read traditional Catholic blog posts that aren’t just screaming about Bergoglio and the Novus Ordo.

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    1. @anon7:18
      Thank you my friend! I try and make relevant posts on a variety of topics as we make our way through the Great Apostasy. Very interesting info about cryogenics. PT Barnum is proven correct once more!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  5. Slightly off topic, but would you elaborate on COVID not being that severe of a virus? I have tried to say this to people. Yes, it is a real virus and, yes, people do die from it. However, I think it's effects are exaggerated to justify the hysteria and control over society that the state governments are imposing.

    How can one research the topic fairly and adequately while avoiding "the narrative" on one hand and people who say it's a "hoax" on the other? What is a reasonable way to interpret the current virus? (Would you be willing to write an article on this?) Thank you.

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    1. @anon7:33
      At this point in time, there’s not enough reliable information to do justice to the topic. However, there are certain factors which give the lie to “the narrative” (not to say its a hoax).

      1. At the same time COVID deaths were spiking, deaths by all other causes were dropping at incredible rates. Anyone who died and tested positive for COVID were automatically assumed to have died from it because those deaths are tied to federal aid. Hence, someone with a bad heart dies of a heart attack but has (or HAD) COVID is considered a COVID death.

      2. This, and false positives and negatives, make it impossible to determine exactly how many deaths were truly caused by COVID. I’ve seen claims as high as 6% mortality, to as low as 0.4 %.

      Therefore, I think it’s reasonable to interpret the virus as potentially dangerous to those with underlying conditions, but MOSTLY not fatal to others.

      That’s the best any of us can do until more accurate information comes out in the future.
      At that point, I may consider doing a post.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. Introibo,

      The 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. is medical malpractice. Current statistics claim 143,792 deaths due to the Coronavirus. Compare that number to an estimate of at least 250,000 deaths annually from medical malpractice which is an under recognized epidemic in the Country. Looking at these numbers puts Coronavirus death numbers in a different perspective. See link below:

      https://www.masstortnexus.com/News/5398/Medical-Error-Is-Not-Included-On-Death-Certificates-Or-CDC-Rankings-Of-Cause-Of-Death

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    3. Joann,
      Yes, very scary! I had a doctor years ago who suggested surgery. Thank goodness I went for multiple opinions. That quack didn’t know what he was talking about and I would have had a surgery—-with all the risks—-needlessly.

      We must be careful even of our doctors!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  6. Don’t forget those who believe life has no meaning and we are better when death.
    Talking about mechanism: Some years ago, Pixar made a kids movie (inside out) in which the characters are the feelings controlling a girl’s brain. It is implied that the base instincts control you.
    - Poni

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    1. For 99% of humanity, the base instincts are in control.

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    2. We are probably bombarded with a lot more UV and other radiation than in antediluvian times. I always surmised that radiation was the most probable cause of man’s natural life span decreasing from the hundreds down to 120.

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    3. Poni,
      You are correct. Without God, people become hopeless without any meaning in their life. Many commit suicide as a result.

      Tom,
      You’re spot on about radiation and shorter lifespans.

      —-Introibo

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    4. Remember the TV show
      "Herman's Head?"
      It was the exact same storyline in weekly TV show around 91/92.
      -A

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  7. Excellent post.
    God bless -Andrew-

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  8. Introibo, is smoking really a sin? In NOW's article about Francis banning cigaretes in the Vatican, as a side note, he stated:

    When during the canonization proceedings for Pope Pius X (d. 1914) in the early 1950s, the advocatus diaboli (devil’s advocate) objected to the holiness of Giuseppe Sarto on the grounds that he had been a smoker, the cardinals in attendance reportedly laughed out loud (some of them quite possibly with cigarettes in hand).

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    1. @anon7:16
      I will not make up sins. The Church has never declared smoking to be sinful. That being said, back at the beginning of Vatican II (1962) and before that time, medical science did not know how dangerous tobacco was to health.

      Smoking is an invitation to all types of cancer, emphysema, heart problems, etc. The correlation between smoking and illness is so strong, life insurance takes it into serious consideration when you apply for approval and premiums. I’m convinced my father’s cancer came from smoking.

      Nevertheless, I have no authority to declare anything a sin. Is it extremely foolish? Yes. Will you increase your risk of terrible diseases? Yes. Is it a sin? The Church has never declared it so, therefore my answer must be “No.”

      —-Introibo

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    2. Interesting. Novus ordo ppl believe smoking is a sin, yet apostasy gets a pass!
      BTW, I don’t recommend you to smoke. It can be addictive. Nicotine is not relaxing.

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    3. Thank you Introibo.

      My point in asking was that in your post, it seems that you state that smoking is a violation of the Fifth Commandment.

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    4. Francis the fake by banning cigarettes at the Vatican is showing his Protestantism. I know evangelical Protestants who think and act like smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol even in moderation to be the worst sins one could commit. They will even shun members of their own family if they smoke or drink alcohol.

      JoAnn

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    5. Joann,
      Yes, many Protestants think any use of alcohol or tobacco is sinful. Bergoglio seems to join them.

      —-Introibo

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    6. Francis the fake institutes Amoris Laetitia which heretically states "It can no longer simply be said that all those living in any ‘irregular situation’ are living in a state of mortal sin” (301). He is condoning adultery and fornication but banns cigarettes. How anyone can accept Francis as "Pope" boggles the mind!

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    7. Joann,
      I think the problem lies in the fact that many do not any longer know or believe Traditional Church teaching. They either accept Modernism or are mere “cultural” members of the sect who don’t really care.

      —-Introibo

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    8. Introibo,
      How do you account for the Recognize and Resist? How can they accept Francis as “Pope” with the heretical garbage that comes from him? That really boggles my mind!

      JoAnn

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    9. Joann,
      The R&R camp is in denial of reality. They want a “pope” at the expense of reason and it’s harder and harder for me to believe that they are in good faith this far into the Great Apostasy.

      —-Introibo

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  9. Fr Cekada is back at the hospital. Pray for him. And also pray for me, because i am psychologically damaged at the moment.
    - Poni

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    1. Poni,
      Prayers for Fr Cekada and you. I ask my readers to do the same.

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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    2. I'll pray for you,Poni.
      Personally,been walking through very ugly terrain myself.
      Wish you well my friend.
      -Andrew

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    3. I will pray for you too, Andrew. God Bless You +JMJ+

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    4. Poni,

      Prayers for you and for Fr.Cekada.

      JoAnn

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    5. Thank you all.
      God bless
      -A

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  10. The amount of radiation that makes it to the surface is also dependent on the Earth’s magnetic field. Measurents of this field show that it is not stable and does change and may even be weakining. The flood may have been of such a magnitude that the very spin of the earth was effected thus altering the radiation protection antediluvian man enjoyed. Genesis talks of waters above and below. It is also possible that the very nature of our atmosphere changed during the flood. Hence the rainbow as a unique sign since no rainbow may have been possible before the flood. Global climate change fools never stop to consider these possibilities. They assume that there is some sort of perfect climate baseline that we must maintain. Idiots!

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    1. @anon6:56
      I did not remove this comment; something went wrong. Please resubmit your comment if you wish!

      —-Introibo

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    2. Interesting, I'll try again. I said, It's interesting how you mentioned parabiosis. It reminds me of the probable evil involvement of Hilary Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, and Tom Hanks have had in regards to the f r a z z l e d r i p face which appears to be a code of what they did on the private island. Totally Satan's mockery of eternal life in such a sinister fashion.

      Lee

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    3. Lee,
      Never thought of that! It is definitely “vampire-like.”

      God Bless,
      —-Introibo

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    4. Adrenachrome is another possible explanation.
      There is an outright bold reference to Adrenachrome in the novel AND movie of
      "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas."
      There's a suitcase which contains all of their drugs.
      Hunter S. Thompson's atty says,
      "That tube with the dark fluid is Human Adrenaline.
      Got it from a Satanist friend of mine,straight from someone's
      adrenaline gland.
      1 or 2 drops will do ya good for a few hours."
      Even in 1998 that scene jumped out at me,and this was 11 yrs before my conversion.
      Very frightening subject matter,especially given what some of us went through as youngsters or young adults.
      -Andrew

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    5. Andrew,
      That’s another interesting take on the matter.

      —Introibo

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    6. Good point Andrew. Apparently adrenachrome is a powerful drug that a lot of elitist and celebrities try to get when it has to do with children. The way they get it is truly devilish if it is true. Its strange that the movie Castaway is a about a man getting stuck on an island and that he happens to find a soccer ball that floats to shore where he creates a face with his own blood.

      Lee

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  12. An Internist with 20 yrs experience claims that the COVID-19 vaccine could be used to patent human beings, as it will change one's DNA. This is big PHARMA spearheaded. Very scary.

    https://www.infowars.com/dr-warns-new-covid-19-vaccine-is-untested-and-will-alter-your-dna/

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    1. Joann,
      Thank you for sharing this information!

      —-Introibo

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    2. Patent as in cloning one or more individuals with the same DNA as a mortal man or woman?
      -A

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    3. A,

      "The gene altering vaccination would tweak human DNA into a cell line major corporations could patent, hypothetically owning the people with altered DNA".

      JoAnn

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    4. Not only are there patents, but these eugenicists want to make humans into robots. They want us live in our own matrix by making the technology in the vaccine control our memory and our resistance to disobedience while at the same time increasing our cancer risks and lowering our immunity, in order to depopulate as many as possible. We need to pray the St. Michael Chaplet everyday not so much for helping us against Covid 19 but against these evil globalists in high places. Thank you JoAnn for the video.

      Lee

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    5. We have been told repeatedly by the medical community for years that there is no cure or treatment for a virus. Also, no vaccine for the common cold as it is a virus. Now the medical profession is doing the opposite with the Coronavirus. Very suspicious! Perhaps I question too much, but I do not trust them.

      JoAnn

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    6. Joann,
      I think it will be some time before we learn the truth behind the whole COVID-19 pandemic. Questioning what you hear about it is the wise thing to do.

      —-Introibo

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  13. Please pray and/or have 1
    Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for
    Bishop Bertrand Boland.
    He's 1 of the few pre-June 1968 valid
    Roman Rite Bishops,consecrated in 1965.
    Pray he returns to the Holy Catholic Church & confers trad-rite
    Holy Orders for Priests/Bishops.
    Conditional ordination & consecration would help greatly.
    It would stop the never ending condemnation & argumentation of
    Thuc/Mendez/Lefevbre lines being called into question,which only hurts the Church and future converts.
    -Andrew

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    1. Andrew,
      Certainly prayers for his conversion are in order. But don’t think for a minute that he could end his orders from being called into question. I can hear it now: He went along with the Vatican II sect, he’s a double agent, his ordaining bishop was involved in Freemasonry, etc, etc.

      —-Introibo

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    2. LoL very true!
      -A

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  14. I remember watching an interview back in early June, I think, given by Gov Cuomo to a young reporter who was talking to him about how his Covid restrictions were posing hardships for thousands of small business owners, possibly wiping out their livelihoods. He responsed along the lines of: business is only business, but Covid can kill. Then he actually asked her: "What could be worse than death?" (It would be chilling to hear this question coming from a validly baptized Catholic, except for the fact he is lapsed.)
    The reporter was at a loss for words - stopped in her tracks - and I wanted to shout to her to say: Hell is worse than death!! Illness is a condition that befell mankind due to original sin, and although we are permitted to take medicine or have surgery to recover if God wills it, the government oversteps when it dictates that we surrender our Natural Law right to support our families, breathe fresh air unimpeded, go outdoors for recreation, or engage in trade in the face of something like a serious respiratory infection.
    It sounds like the strongest voices against this overreaching State seem to be coming from Sedevacantist Catholics.
    To me that is one more indicator that the pre Vatican 2 Catholic Faith alone holds the clear Truth.

    Introibo, what a blessing for you to have Fr. De Pauw as your spiritual mentor. I can imagine him in the forefront of a movement to condemn this new tyranny if he were alive today, just like Bp. Von Galen (?) condemned eugenicism from the pulpit in 1930's Germany.
    -Jannie


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    1. Jannie,
      Cuomo is the ultimate Vatican II sect pious-looking fraud. He never sought a V2 sect “annulment” from his wife and lives in open adultery. He pushed through sodomite marriage in 2011—4 years before the Supreme Court legalized perversion. He advocates for recreational marijuana. He supports murdering babies on demand by unrestricted abortion. He sees this life and his own narcissistic self-aggrandizement as all there is to existence.

      Yet his Vatican II sect “bishop” gives him “communion”—thank God it’s invalid!

      I honestly believe that if only 10% of clerics had been like Fr DePauw, Vatican II wouldn’t have taken hold as it did. There would have been too many devout and well-informed Catholics that would have stormed out with brave clerics to stand in large opposition to the new sect. Alas!

      God Bless,

      —-Introibo

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  15. This post brought up an interesting point regarding the theory of evolution and original sin. Original sin is what introduced death into the world/universe, basically the cause of entropy/2nd law of thermodynamics.

    So, if the origin of species has an evolutionary history, as the naturalists would like us to believe, how on earth could that be reconciled at all with original sin? Evolution requires death in order to function. If there is no death, there is no evolution. It is literally a cult of death if you will, for from killing off the weaker members of a species, either through natural forces or whatever types of selection one desires to consider, a stronger, more eugenic race can then, as the narrative goes, grow and develop.

    When I started putting 2 and 2 together for entropy and evolution, the entire theory fell apart before my eyes. I personally don't see any true reconcilliation between it and Catholicism, Pope Pius XII's moratorium for the moment on any condemnation notwithstanding. By purely natural standards, evolution falls flat (how can purely natural forces counteract the 2nd law of thermodynamics *constantly*, creating better and more complex species over time?), and if one tries to bolster it through God, the question then arises, on what basis can we reject the Biblical history in favor of these completely unverified and unsubstantiated theories?

    Not to disparage any sincere evolutionists here of course. Just mulling some things over.

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